Bright Crawler Lightning! Slow Motion Lightning 5/12/24

This was an unexpected high-based storm that passed over my home in Round Lake, IL. The storm had a "bottom-heavy" charge structure (negative-over-positive charge structure near cloud base) which will produce a high number of these fast negative crawlers near the storm core with little or no cloud-to-ground strikes. Had the storm arrived an hour earlier, it'd be a lot more colorful, but I'll take a freebie!

EQUIPMENT I USE:

Nikon D5300 DSLR

Sony CyberShot RX100V

YI 4K Action Camera
Model YAS. 1616.INT

Samsung Galaxy S9 Smartphone

Sony Stereo Digital Voice Recorder
Model ICD-UX570

Video editing done using Shotcut

Lightning information provided by Vaisala's National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) through weather.us/lightning. Note that I only use this information to roughly estimate stroke intensity and distance, the data may be prone to error on my end and my work is not, and should not be considered to be, a formal evaluation of the NLDN's performance.

Thanks to Tom A. Warner and other lightning physicists and researchers who have helped me understand lightning processes explained in my videos. Tom has created a great resource for individuals interested in learning how lightning works.
https://ztresearch.blog/education/